In 1840s Britain, the Industrial Revolution has brought advances in technology and manufacturing. For the gentry, it means bigger chimneys on their houses. For poor young boys, it sometimes means becoming a soot merchant's climbing boy.
Jack is one such climbing boy. Born into a life of unlimited wealth but through a cruel twist of fate he is abandoned and eventually taken on as a climbing boy by a chimney sweep. Like many other young climbing boys, Jack sadly contracts a disease that eventually takes his life.
A story written by Mary Briggs and published by Olympia Publishers, it tells of poverty, wealth, loss and a love that conquers all.....

Tangled Tales is a colourful collection of epic poetry inspired by the author's study and observations of various reform institutions such as places of detention and psychiatric hospitals. Personal reflections on his own experiences of Spanish culture and cultural events are also a strong theme running through the collection. This can be seen in such poems as La Mascleta, Nit del Foc or La Boina.
Non-Spanish themes are found in the sorrowful Hopeful Regrets, the profound, complex Sides and the dark yet optimistic Felon, amongst others.
Finally, there is also the sorrowful verses epitomised best in the poem Tormented City.
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Fourteen biblical parables – written by Ray Filby and published by Olympia Publishers – retold for a modern audience: the compassionate stranger who assists the badly beaten-up man lying unconscious by the side of the road; the good-for-nothing wastrel of a son who is welcomed back into the familial fold; the generous patriarch who throws a banquet for the down-and-outs of society; the kind school teacher who shepherds a particularly troublesome pupil who finds himself lost in the big city; the man who is so blinded by ambition and greed that he can't enjoy the fruits of his successes; the wise factory owner who knows how to solve the problem of which of his staff to make redundant and, ....

This is a marvellous tale of professional rivalry as historians battle over the authenticity of foundational texts, persons and events. There are many political considerations – is it wise to criticise past rulers and risk offending the current ones? How much should an Indian historian take notice of the colonial English way of writing history? Shyamal Das deals adroitly with problem after problem to bring his masterpiece to fruition in ways that have helped to reshape the way we think about India and how its history should be written.....

Dirty Diana, hired assassin and avenger of evil men. What led her to this lifestyle was the abuse she suffered as a child at the hands of her mother's drunken boyfriends. Diana doesn't want others to suffer.
The opportunity to learn martial arts gave her the skills to become adept in her chosen career, maiming and murdering without mercy. To her friends however, Diana is a faithful and caring friend and would do anything to protect them.....

A heart-rending collection of tales of domestic violence, linked by a narrative focusing on events in Nigeria in the 1980s. Various friends and families are brought closer together as they discover the hurt and pain that is shaping and destroying many of their lives.....

With the help of Ellingham, Josh's manservant, Josh must work his way through miserable mother-in-laws, financial crisis and unruly children, all whilst realising he may have found the love of his life. Can Ellingham come up with all the answers this time?....

With these and other funny thoughts, Kerbside Tales will keep your hair on when your luck's off, and keep your eyes rolling even when your wheels aren't. As a journalist of the motor trade with an eye for irony, Chris Randall shows us the worst on-road experiences at their best.....